--- title: Mars Curiosity Rover NASA Video Gives 360-degree View description: NASA made it much easier to explore Mars this week when the agency released a video featuring a 360-degree view of the planet. canonical: https://time.com/4216027/mars-curiosity-rover-360-view/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-10T20:02:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:26.126Z article:section: Science og:title: Experience Mars in 360 Degrees With This New NASA Video og:description: Thanks to the Curiosity rover og:url: https://time.com/4216027/mars-curiosity-rover-360-view/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Experience Mars in 360 Degrees With This New NASA Video twitter:description: Thanks to the Curiosity rover twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Experience Mars in 360 Degrees With This New NASA Video by [Daniel White](/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Feb 10, 2016 8:02 PM CUT by [Daniel White](/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Feb 10, 2016 8:02 PM CUT NASA made it much easier to explore Mars this week when the agency released [a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME%5FT4B1rxCg "undefined") featuring a 360-degree view of the planet. The video, stitched together from images taken by the [Curiosity rover](http://time.com/4200830/curiosity-rover-mars-selfie/ "undefined"), offers views of the downwind face of the Namib Dune and a glimpse at Mount Sharp on Mars. The rover is about 23 feet from the bottom of the nearest dune, according to NASA, the mission’s examination of dunes along lower Mount Sharp is the first glimpse of active sand dunes anywhere other than on the Earth’s surface.  The images were taken on Dec. 18 using the rover’s Mast Camera, which takes color images used to make panorama views. The rover recently sent back a [“selfie”](http://time.com/4200830/curiosity-rover-mars-selfie/ "undefined") to Earth and there is also [a still version of the shot](http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia20284 "undefined") of the Namib Dune. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4216027/mars-curiosity-rover-360-view/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4216027/mars-curiosity-rover-360-view/"},"headline":"Experience Mars in 360 Degrees With This New NASA Video","datePublished":"2016-02-10T20:02:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:26.126Z","description":"Thanks to the Curiosity rover","url":"https://time.com/4216027/mars-curiosity-rover-360-view/","keywords":["Space","Mars"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4216027/mars-curiosity-rover-360-view/","name":"Experience Mars in 360 Degrees With This New NASA Video"}}]}] ```